Dear all,
the new issue of Nuncius. Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science (vol. 34, n. 1, 2019) is out. Here is the table of contents.
Bernard Pouderon, "La procréation des vierges chez les gnostiques et leurs contemporains orthodoxes (IIe s.). De l’ empreinte du regard à la parthénogénèse"
John Davis, "A Medieval English Astrolabe Now in Innsbruck, Linked to the Lancastrian Court and with a Chaucer Connection"
Ilaria Ampollini, "Celestial Globes and Popular Astronomy: Giuseppe Toaldo Translator of Jérôme Lalande"
Catalina Valdés and Magdalena Montalbán, "'… It Was Highly Desirable They Should Be Illustrated': Images from the U.S. Navy Astronomical Expedition in Chile (1849–1852)"
Jaume Valentines-Álvarez and Jaume Sastre-Juan, "The Failed Technology Museum of Catalonia: Engineers and the Politics of the Musealization of Technology in Barcelona (1929–1939)"
Documenta Inedita
Lucia Raggetti, "Apollonius of Tyana’s Great Book of Talismans"
Review Essay
Noam Andrews, "Diagnosis: Melencolia I"
Book Reviews
Cynthia Klestinec, Pious Postmortems: Anatomy, Sanctity, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe, by Bradford A. Bouley
Elio Nenci, Janello Torriani and the Spanish Empire. A Vitruvian Artisan at the Dawn of the Scientific Revolution, by Cristiano Zanetti
Argante Ciocci, Cieli in contraddizione. Giovanni Battista Riccioli e il terzo sistema del mondo, by Flavia Marcacci
Charley Ladee, Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance, by Suzanne Karr Schmidt
Simon Werrett, Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France, by Paola Bertucci
Paolo Savoia, Creatures Born of Mud and Slime: The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation, by Daryn Lehoux
Rossella De Ceglie, Le monde dans un carnet. Alexander von Humboldt en Italie (1805), by Marie-Noëlle Bourguet
Liborio Dibattista, Vivarium. Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna’s Biologische Versuchsanstalt, by Gerd B. Müller, ed.
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